The paper presents the results of an experiment of using the learning platform BSCW (Basic Smart, Cooperate Worldwide) as a virtual classroom for preschool and primary school teacher training at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Three years of experimental program are presented in relation with the use of Internet as a fruitful learning environment. The defining features of BSCW will be presented, emphasizing on the platform's characteristics that make it a real virtual classroom. Being defined by a variety of didactic options of communication, cooperation, organization of learning space, the BSCW platform represents a virtual classroom. Its use offered the university future teacher students the possibility to exercise own learning management skills, to improve own cooperation and learning tasks design abilities.
Purpose of StudyThe paper presents the results of an experiment of using the learning platform BSCW (Basic Smart, Cooperate Worldwide) as a virtual classroom for preschool and primary school teacher training at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Three years of experimental program are presented in relation with the use of Internet as a fruitful learning environment.The present experimental study was generated by the main challenge of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) use, namely that of creating a suitable learning environment, a milieu that is open to learning. In our understanding, the new technologies facilitate the transaction from the learning environment focused on teaching and teacher to the one focused on the student.The main challenge that pedagogy faces, described by the Romanian UNESCO expert George V ideanu in his volume "Education at the frontier between millenniums" [8] and by the Romanian specialist in education Miron Ionescu in his work " Creative approaches to teaching and learning" namely the transfer of accent from teaching to learning, from information to training, from instruction to education, implicitly becomes today one of the main * Catalin-Cosmin Glava.
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